This reminded me of the movie Silent Running (IMDB) with Bruce Dern, crusing around on a spaceship with bio-domes and 3 drones named Huey, Dewey and Louie.
...snipsnip... Nothing can protect any individual anywhere from the wrath and power of the United States. Don't believe that? Just ask Osama Bin Laden.
The FBI has been known to have a backdoor into Tor...
+1 for reminding us about it
-4 for not providing technical details or following up on a three year old story
The "backdoor" was accomplished by having the Tor user access a web page containing a compromised Adobe Flash element. Obviously this would only work if the victim had not disabled Flash in their browser. If a user is going to do bad stuff and try to hide behind Tor, they should figure out how to run NoScript or at least disable flash. For some people this was apparently too technical. From the Wired article:
[Operation] Torpedo unfolded when the FBI seized control of a trio of Dark Net child porn sites based in Nebraska. Armed with a special search warrant crafted by Justice Department lawyers in Washington DC, the FBI used the sites to deliver the Flash application to visitors’ browsers, tricking some of them into identifying their real IP address to an FBI server. The operation identified 25 users in the US and an unknown number abroad.
Those 25 users are probably enjoying the "attention" of their fellow inmates at this moment. Child molesters are not popular in the house. Flash was (eventually) updated to make the exploit obsolete.
The decloaking demonstration eventually was rendered obsolete by a nearly idiot-proof version of the Tor client called the Tor Browser Bundle, which made security blunders more difficult. By 2011, Moore says virtually everyone visiting the Metasploit decloaking site was passing the anonymity test, so he retired the service. But when the bureau obtained its Operation Torpedo warrants the following year, it chose Moore’s Flash code as its “network investigative technique”—the FBI’s lingo for a court-approved spyware deployment.
The FBI then setup their own ISP in attempts to lure bad guys. They also started down the path of developing custom malware.
In late July 2013, computer security experts detected a similar attack through Dark Net websites hosted by a shady ISP called Freedom Hosting—court records have since confirmed it was another FBI operation. For this one, the bureau used custom attack code that exploited a relatively fresh Firefox vulnerability...
I wonder if these aholes were responsible for the fake mozilla "Update Firefox" popups I would routinely get while on Yahoo email. The popup said to update Firefox by downloading and running a "firefox-patch.js". I started running firefox with the dev tools window open so that I could see the network traffic and track them down. The redirects were too convoluted for me to follow with my limited knowledge. Recent versions of firefox seem to have eliminated this problem.
They work about as well together as the Dems & Republicans in Congress. Granted, Google and Amazon are in business to make money for the shareholders and they do have competing interests so conflict can be expected. Come to think of it, just like Congress.
There goes everyone else's chance in the Olympics. In 20 years China will be hip-deep in engineered super-human athletes and people that look like Michael Jackson.
Bill for my wife's recent MRI (2 lumpectomies + radiation in 2015)
MRI General.......... $4804
Drug Spec (sedation).. $256
Adj (ins)........... -$3645
Pmt AET RCP.......... -$216 ... other adjustments
Total due............ $1198
We'll do this every year for a couple more years, plus mammograms twice a year.
The lying, misogyny, insensitivity, bellicosity, narcissism and over-compensated inferiority complex have nothing to do with intelligence.
You just described every single person who has ever been in Congress or the White House....snipsnip...
Excellent demonstration of The Golden Rationalization or Two Wrongs make a Right. However I would like to believe that there's been some representatives who just wanted to do the right thing. The trick is trying to distinguish the baby from the bath water.
I assure you just because some people put on a public face which seems nice and comfortable to you does not mean they are like that in private.
Agreed. I would go so far as to say ".... they are like that in reality".
...snipsnip... Donald Trump is one of the least intelligent presidential candidates this nation has ever seen. Blatant lies, boasts about sexual assault, and so on only served to feed his campaign
The lying, misogyny, insensitivity, bellicosity, narcissism and over-compensated inferiority complex have nothing to do with intelligence. Those are simply indecies of maladjustment. According the the smartest guy around, Donald Trump is the smartest guy around. He is, in fact, way, way too smart to be a good leader or President. The job of POTUS is just not good enough for the Donald. He should be conferred Supreme Doctor of Thinkology, Universitartus Committiartum E Pluribus Unum. All hail the mighty Trump! We tremble under the lash of your intellect!
And now for something completely different.... Working in a Lava Tube, sung to the melody of Devo - Working In a Coal Mine
Workin' in a lava tube
Goin' down, down, down
Lookin' for the water fall
Oops, about to slip down
Workin' lunar lava tubes
Goin' down down, down
Look out for the icy stuff
Oops, about to slip down
Five o'clock in the morning
That last tube sure was a dud
This one lookin' no better
How long before I get some bud?
Daddies workin' in a lava tube
Goin' down, down, down
Lookin' for the water fall
Oops, about to slip down
Workin' lunar lava tubes
Goin' down down, down
Look out for the icy stuff
Oops, about to slip down
'Course I paid in Bitcoin
Haulin' ice ain't no fun
But when Saturday come round
No beer, no xbox, no fun
I'm just workin' in a lava tube
Goin' down, down, down
Lookin' for the water fall
Oops, about to slip down
Workin'....
It's kinda sad. OW is (I hope) smart enough to know to not run. The DNC is so discombobulated after their shoe-in lost, and so desperate for anyone with a pulse that they'll float a 2020 rumor for a rich TV star with no military or political experience. Maybe the pulse will become optional and they'll nominate Barbara Jordan. Or go full-throttle down the rich entertainer track and try Barbara Streisand, with Wayne Newton as VP.
Crampons: check
Ice axes: check
rope, ice screws, pro and harnesses: check
clothing and helmet: check
beer: check
SpaceX Big Falcon:....uh. Stand by Houston.
My gramma had a good saying: If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Otherwise I'll have to rip off your miserable balls and stuff them down your fucking throat. Now run along and play. There's a good boy..
Yea yea yea. Or forgotten it as yet another George Cloney / Brad Pitt / Matt Damon / Andy Garcia / Julia Roberts / Elliot Gould / Casey Affleck / Carl Reiner / Wayne Newton / Eydie Gormé / Angie Dickinson / Steve Lawrence vehicle.
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This reminded me of the movie Silent Running (IMDB) with Bruce Dern, crusing around on a spaceship with bio-domes and 3 drones named Huey, Dewey and Louie.
...snipsnip... Nothing can protect any individual anywhere from the wrath and power of the United States. Don't believe that? Just ask Osama Bin Laden.
Or the politicians, economists, credit rating executives, bankers and brokers who steered us into the subprime mortgage crash in 2007. Boy they're suffering now.
I rarely read my email. And I don't believe in BitCoin. I wonder if they'd accept milk and cookies or my firstborn?
The FBI has been known to have a backdoor into Tor ...
+1 for reminding us about it
-4 for not providing technical details or following up on a three year old story
The "backdoor" was accomplished by having the Tor user access a web page containing a compromised Adobe Flash element. Obviously this would only work if the victim had not disabled Flash in their browser. If a user is going to do bad stuff and try to hide behind Tor, they should figure out how to run NoScript or at least disable flash. For some people this was apparently too technical. From the Wired article:
Those 25 users are probably enjoying the "attention" of their fellow inmates at this moment. Child molesters are not popular in the house. Flash was (eventually) updated to make the exploit obsolete.
The FBI then setup their own ISP in attempts to lure bad guys. They also started down the path of developing custom malware.
I wonder if these aholes were responsible for the fake mozilla "Update Firefox" popups I would routinely get while on Yahoo email. The popup said to update Firefox by downloading and running a "firefox-patch.js". I started running firefox with the dev tools window open so that I could see the network traffic and track them down. The redirects were too convoluted for me to follow with my limited knowledge. Recent versions of firefox seem to have eliminated this problem.
#include useless_AC_flames
They work about as well together as the Dems & Republicans in Congress. Granted, Google and Amazon are in business to make money for the shareholders and they do have competing interests so conflict can be expected. Come to think of it, just like Congress.
There goes everyone else's chance in the Olympics. In 20 years China will be hip-deep in engineered super-human athletes and people that look like Michael Jackson.
Bill for my wife's recent MRI (2 lumpectomies + radiation in 2015)
.......... $4804 .. $256 ........... -$3645 .......... -$216
... other adjustments ............ $1198
MRI General
Drug Spec (sedation)
Adj (ins)
Pmt AET RCP
Total due
We'll do this every year for a couple more years, plus mammograms twice a year.
The lying, misogyny, insensitivity, bellicosity, narcissism and over-compensated inferiority complex have nothing to do with intelligence.
You just described every single person who has ever been in Congress or the White House. ...snipsnip...
Excellent demonstration of The Golden Rationalization or Two Wrongs make a Right. However I would like to believe that there's been some representatives who just wanted to do the right thing. The trick is trying to distinguish the baby from the bath water.
I assure you just because some people put on a public face which seems nice and comfortable to you does not mean they are like that in private.
Agreed. I would go so far as to say " .... they are like that in reality".
Still better than either crooked Hillary or Bernie the commie.
For sure. Like when I told a friend who was dying of breast cancer "Better than having the flu".
The lying, misogyny, insensitivity, bellicosity, narcissism and over-compensated inferiority complex have nothing to do with intelligence. Those are simply indecies of maladjustment. According the the smartest guy around, Donald Trump is the smartest guy around. He is, in fact, way, way too smart to be a good leader or President. The job of POTUS is just not good enough for the Donald. He should be conferred Supreme Doctor of Thinkology, Universitartus Committiartum E Pluribus Unum. All hail the mighty Trump! We tremble under the lash of your intellect!
So you're saying we could cut out a major source of greenhouse-gas emissions by just going naked all the time?
Naked or not, I'm still emittin.
That was BitCoin, going out in a flashbang blaze of glory. Turn out the lights, the party's over.
That meteor over Michigan last night? That was the BitCoin flashbang. Turn out the lights, the party's over....
And now for something completely different
Workin' in a lava tube
Goin' down, down, down
Lookin' for the water fall
Oops, about to slip down
Workin' lunar lava tubes
Goin' down down, down
Look out for the icy stuff
Oops, about to slip down
Five o'clock in the morning
That last tube sure was a dud
This one lookin' no better
How long before I get some bud?
Daddies workin' in a lava tube
Goin' down, down, down
Lookin' for the water fall
Oops, about to slip down
Workin' lunar lava tubes
Goin' down down, down
Look out for the icy stuff
Oops, about to slip down
'Course I paid in Bitcoin
Haulin' ice ain't no fun
But when Saturday come round
No beer, no xbox, no fun
I'm just workin' in a lava tube
Goin' down, down, down
Lookin' for the water fall
Oops, about to slip down
Workin'
thank you.
Chesley Bonestell
Other links:
Bonestell.org
Google Image search
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (IMDB)
Some books on EBay
It's kinda sad. OW is (I hope) smart enough to know to not run. The DNC is so discombobulated after their shoe-in lost, and so desperate for anyone with a pulse that they'll float a 2020 rumor for a rich TV star with no military or political experience. Maybe the pulse will become optional and they'll nominate Barbara Jordan. Or go full-throttle down the rich entertainer track and try Barbara Streisand, with Wayne Newton as VP.
Leading to the rise of quantum malware.
Crampons: check ....uh. Stand by Houston.
Ice axes: check
rope, ice screws, pro and harnesses: check
clothing and helmet: check
beer: check
SpaceX Big Falcon:
My gramma had a good saying: If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Otherwise I'll have to rip off your miserable balls and stuff them down your fucking throat. Now run along and play. There's a good boy..
... robotic poll dancers...
huh whaaa? You're kidding, right? I never even dreamed of such a thing. Now my life seems strangely empty.
Unless it's Russian robotic poll dancers : the next phase in the war on the American voting process.
Video killed radio.
Cortana -- Not dead yet.
Hasn't anyone here seen Oceans Eleven?
Yea yea yea. Or forgotten it as yet another George Cloney / Brad Pitt / Matt Damon / Andy Garcia / Julia Roberts / Elliot Gould / Casey Affleck / Carl Reiner / Wayne Newton / Eydie Gormé / Angie Dickinson / Steve Lawrence vehicle.
+10 : Insightful.